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Article: Irish women's writing: some thoughts on its critical condition.
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- Hecate
- Article date:
- October 1, 1993
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. . . the first historians of any subject assume a tremendous authority. It is very difficult for the next generation to deny or oppose their categories and judgments. Women writers have been written out of literary history by this very process, a lesson feminist critics know very well. But recognition of a mistake doesn't keep one from making it.
Jane Marcus, "Con/textualizing feminist criticism"
Some months ago I set out to write a review of Ann Owens Weekes' Irish Women Writers: An Uncharted Tradition,(1) a straightforward enough task given my enthusiasm and eagerness at finally getting my hands on a copy. After several failed attempts to say anything at ...